Guard-rail.



G. W. REINOEHL 8/: B. L. WEAVER.

GUARD RAIL.

APPLICATION FILED 91:13.4, 190s.

- Patented June 15,1909.

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CHARLES W. REINOEHL AND BENT L. WEAVER, OF STEELTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

GUARD-RAIL.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES W. REI- NOEHL and BENT L. WEAVER, citizens of the United States, and residents of Steelton, Dauphin county, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Guard-R ails, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a stock rail and guard rail showing our invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 9cx, of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 1s a side vlew of the guard rail.

This invention relates to improvements in guard rails, the object being to provide a guard rail with a renewable hard metal upper surface without cutting away any of the stock portions of the guard rail; also, to provide means whereby, as the upper surface becomes worn, it may be adjusted to take up such wear.

To these ends the invention consists in providing the construction hereinafter fully described.

1 is a main rail, and 2 the guard rail adjacent thereto. The said guard rail 2, for a distance within which the wear takes place, as between the points 3 and l, is bent outwardly, as seen in Fig. 1, in a suitable bending apparatus. That is, said portion of the guard rail is bent outwardly to such abnormal extent that a wear piece 5, preferably of hard and tough metal, and of some lateral thickness, may be secured on the inner side thereof, and its head portion 6, in line with the head portion of the guard rail, being a suitable distance from the opposite face of the main rail. Said wear piece 5, being fitted to the guard rail and constituting, as it were, an inner extension thereof, is provided with a downwardly extending web portion 7, which is secured to the guard rail by means of suitable bolts 8. As the outward bends in the guard rail at the points 3 and 4 are somewhat abrupt, they form shoulders against which the ends of the piece 5 abut, thereby preventing longitudinal movement of the latter.

On the outer face of the guard rail we would usually secure one or more shims, 9, of sheet metal or the like, that iit the rail throughout a distance corresponding with Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 4, 1908.

Patented June 15, 1909.

Serial No. 414,260.

that of said wear piece; so that if and when the inner face 5 of the wear piece 5 becomes worn by passing wheel flanges, said wear may be taken up by withdrawing the bolts 8 and inserting a shim or shims 9 between the guard rail and the wear piece, and again clamping the bolts 8 in place. We further remark that it is obvious that by the construction shown, the wear piece may be readily renewed when desired for any purpose, Without removing the guard rail from its place in the track.

it will be observed that by our invention, the wear piece 5 constituting an inward extension and consequent inward broadening, in effect, of the head of the guard rail, makes it unnecessary for any ortion of the foot flange 10 of the guard rai. to be cut away, as

is usually done in ordinary guard rails, in order to bring the inner side of the head thereof close enough to the opposite side of the head of the main rail. Also, it is unnecessary, in our construction, to cut away any portion of the head of the guard rail, to accommodate the wear piece.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A guard rail comprising a regular rail provided with a base, a vertical web and a head having equal dimensions on each side of its vertical center in cross section throughout its length, a wear piece arranged against the side of the head of said regular rail toward the main rail and provided with a downwardly extending web arranged against the side of the web of said regular rail, said Wear piece constituting a lateral extension of the head of said regular rail, bolts securing the web of the wear piece to the web of the rail, and a shim bent to fit the lateral face of said regular rail and adapted to be inserted between said wear piece and said regular rail.

2. A guard rail comprising a regular rail provided with a base, a vertical web and a head and having a portion bent outwardly from the main rail and forming a recess, and a Wear piece arranged within said recess and secured to the side of said regular rail and constituting a lateral extension of the head thereof.

3. A guard rail comprising a regular rail rovided with a base, a vertical web and a liead and having a portion bent outwardly In testimony whereof, We have hereunto affixed our signatures.

CHARLES W. REINOEHL BENT L. WEAVER. VVi'tnesses':

BENNETT A. HAUKIN, WM. R. MILLER.

from the main rail and forming a recess, a Wear piece arranged Within said recess against the side of the head of said regular rail and provided With a downwardly extending Web arranged against the side of the web of said regular rail, and bolts securing the Web of the Wear piece to the Web of the rail. 

